Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-08-18
Inspecting Large Vineyard.
MIR. sPEER ENTERTAINs A PARTY At
Ills HOME IN PAssAIC.

MIR. SPEElt ENTERTAtNS y PARTY Al
Ills HOME IN PAssAIC.
Alfred Speer. the well known wine
maker of Passaic. n. j., entertained
small party, including members OF the
New York Board OF II ealth and prom.
inent physicians, ut his vineyard and
wine cellar Saturday. The party con-
sisted Of nr, Cyrus Edison, Dr. Edward
II. James, assistant sanitary superin-
tendent; Dr. A, NJ. Jacobus, DR.. Chas
). Wood, George Wood, Clerk of the
Court Of Special Sessions Miss Daisy
Wood and TRIBUNE reporter. Mr.,
Speer WAS waiting at the Passaic sta
ton with carriages. and the party was
driven to the vineyard aud through it
among the vines. There is more than
TWO miles of road under grape arbors,
and the punches that hang thick along
the sides and overhead give promise of
beautiful sight when the grapes are
ripe. Mr.. Speer's vineyards cover
ffty-six acres. The vines are trained
on wires, stretched one above another
eighteen iGches apart, TO height of
live wires. and there are more that
800 miles Of wire used in this way. The
leading variety of grapes raised are the
Concord aud the Oportr, The original
vines of the latter Mr.. Speer imported
about thirty-two years ago, from the
banks of the Doura, in Portugal.
There was much difficulty at first in
acClimating the vines, and out OF s.
600 Imported only 500 lived. These
Mr. Speer cultivated, ana he estimates
that he has now from 10000 TO $4,000
After leaving the vineyard the party
visited the wine cellars, where the
wines, some of last ye1r's vintage aud
some so old that Mr. Speer himself had
forgotten what they were, lay in every
size OF receptacle from the pint bottle
to the 1000 gallon tun. Here Mr..
Speer showed his process, discovered
two years ago, for preventing g the fer
mentatian of grape juice. Mr.. Speer
has succeeded, he claims, in killing the
germs of fermentation altogether by
passing current of electricity through
the juice. Fumigated casks are still
used, and the wires conducting the
currert are attached TO nails driven
through the heads of the casks. DR..
Wood, who has visited the vineyards
of California. said that there were no
wines that physicians could recon-
mend with more confidence than
Speer's port wine, and all the doctors
agreed that this and the other varieties
were Of the highest purity and excel
lence. Mr.. Speer makes port, claret,
unfermented juice, Burgundy and
grape brandy, the quantities ranking in
the order named.
After substantial supper served in
Mr.. Speer's private park, the party
from New York returned home highly
pleased with everything it had seen.
ANY person who wants paying |
work as local or travelling agent for
warranted nursery stock should apply |
atonce to Jas. L. Whitney, nursery |
man, Rochester, n. Y. No experience |
is necessary, and complete uiilt IS fur |
nished free, steady work the year round |
and all stock warranted TO be in good |
condition. 26-l2t !
John have you seen that woman
lately ?
John, an dSteniShment: What woman |
That woman picking Grapes for |
Speer's Wine. Just see her in another |
column and read about it,the wines
are found by chemists to be absolutely |
pure and equal to the best in the |
World. The Board of Health in Large |
Cities and leading Hospitals have a
dopted theil use where wines are need
ed.
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tors' bills and ward off disease take |
Simmons Liver Regulator, a medicine
that increases in popularity each year,
and has become the most popular and |
best endorsed medicine in the market |
for the cure of liver or bowel diseases.